Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics: 32nd Annual Meeting
October 25-26, 2016
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Downloadable version of the program: pdf
Slides and handouts
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
| 9:30-10:00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Greetings | |
| 10:20-11:20 | Invited speaker: Uli Sauerland The Syntax and Semantics of Complementizers in Teiwa |
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| 11:20-11:40 | Coffee | |
| 11:40-12:20 | Grammatically Relevant Ontological Categories Underlie Manner/Result Complementarity Malka Rappaport Hovav |
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| 12:20-13:00 | Semelfactives in English and in Hungarian: a countability-based analysis Zsofia Gyarmathy |
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| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-15:10 | Proportional Comparatives and Relative Scales Stephanie Solt |
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| 15:10-15:50 | Expletive negation and Only Daniel Margulis |
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| 15:50-16:30 | A structural approach to vowel reduction Markus Alexander Pöchtrager |
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| 16:40-17:00 | Coffee | |
| 17:00-17:40 | Metalinguistic Contrast and Scalar Implicatures: The case of 'x, but X' Yael Greenberg |
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| 17:40-18:20 | Why Rhetorical Questions Edit Doron and Lavi Wolf |
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| 19:30 | Conference Dinner |
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
| 10:00-11:00 | Invited speaker: Cleo Condoravdi The Diachrony of Generalizers and Minimizers |
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| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee | |
| 11:20-12:00 | Embedded gapping David Erschler |
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| 12:00-12:40 | Speech Act Control: An Unrecognized Type Idan Landau |
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| 12:40-13:00 | Business Meeting | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-15:10 | Proxy control Aaron Doliana and Sandhya Sundaresan |
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| 15:10-15:50 | Emergence of relative clause construction in Israeli Sign Language Svetlana Dachkovsky and Wendy Sandler |
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| 15:50-16:10 | Coffee | |
| Thematic Session: experimental/historical semantics | ||
| 16:10-16:50 | From possibility to necessity in the history of Hebrew Aynat Rubinstein |
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| 16:50-17:30 | The reaction times associated with processing 'few' and 'many' are more similar to proportional quantifiers than to degree adjectives Galit Agmon, Yonatan Loewenstein and Yosef Grodzinsky |
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| 17:30-17:50 | Coffee | |
| 17:50-18:30 | Conjunctive Disjunctions: Evidence for the Ambiguity Theory Uli Sauerland and Kazuko Yatsushiro |
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Alternates (in alphabetic order):
| A unified existential semantics for bare conditionals Itai Bassi and Moshe E. Bar-Lev |
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| Phonological "Roots" Si Berrebi |
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| The dative alternation again: an argument in favor of a representational account Nora Boneh and Lea Nash |
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| A surface-scope analysis of authoritative readings of modified numerals Brian Buccola and Andreas Haida |